ABSTRACT
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field.
The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.
Features
- The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
- Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food–energy–water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more
- Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them
- Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today
In this third volume, Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems, the general concepts and processes of the geosphere with its related soil and terrestrial systems are introduced. It explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the geosphere systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.
Section I: APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals and Activities 1. Agricultural Soils: Nitrous Oxide Emissions 2. Agriculture: Energy Use and Conservation 3. Agriculture: Organic 4. Erosion by Water: Accelerated 5. Erosion: Irrigation-Induced 6. Pesticide Translocation Control: Soil Erosion 7. Pesticides 8. Salt-Affected Soils: Sustainable Agriculture 9. Sodic Soils: Irrigation Farming Section II: COV: Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management 10. Agricultural Soils: Carbon and Nitrogen Biological Cycling 11. Agricultural Soils: Phosphorus 12. Erosion and Global Change 13. Erosion and Precipitation 14. Erosion: History 15. Erosion by Wind: Global Hot Spots 16. Erosion by Wind: Principles 17. Erosion: Snowmelt 18. Erosion: Soil Quality 19. Farming: Organic 20. Global Climate Change: World Soils 21. Integrated Farming Systems 22. Organic Soil Amendments 23. Pasturelands, Rangelands, and Other Grazing Social-Ecological Systems 24. Salt-Affected Soils: Physical Properties and Behavior 25. Sodic Soils: Properties 26. Soil Degradation: Global Assessment 27. Soil Erosion and Carbon Dioxide 28. Soil Quality: Carbon and Nitrogen Gases 29. Sustainable Agriculture: Soil Quality Section III: CSS: Case Studies of Environmental Management 30. Drought and Agricultural Production in the Central Andes 31. Mines: Rehabilitation of Open Cut Section IV: DIA: Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Indicators, and Ecological Services 32. Bioenergy Crops: Carbon Balance Assessment 33. Erosion by Water: Amendment Techniques 34. Erosion by Water: Assessment and Control 35. Erosion by Water: Empirical Methods 36. Erosion by Water: Process-Based Modeling 37. Erosion by Wind: Source, Measurement, Prediction, and Control 38. Erosion Control: Tillage and Residue Methods 39. Pest Management: Modeling 40. Soil Quality: Indicators Section V: ELE: Focuses on the Use of Legislation or Policy to Address Environmental Problems 41. Acid Sulfate Soils: Management 42. Agricultural Water Quantity Management 43. Erosion by Water: Vegetative Control 44. Erosion Control: Soil Conservation 45. Farming: Organic Pest Management 46. Integrated Nutrient Management 47. Integrated Pest Management 48. Integrated Weed Management 49. Manure Management: Compost and Biosolids 50. Manure Management: Dairy 51. Manure Management: Phosphorus 52. Manure Management: Poultry 53. Organic Matter: Management 54. Pest Management 55. Pest Management: Ecological Agriculture 56. Pest Management: Ecological Aspects 57. Pest Management: Legal Aspects Section VI: ENT: Environmental Management Using Environmental Technologies 58. Acid Sulfate Soils: Formation 59. Erosion and Sediment Control: Vegetative Techniques 60. Precision Agriculture: Engineering Aspects 61. Sodic Soils: Reclamation 62. Tillage Erosion: Terrace Formation Section VII: NEC: Natural Elements and Chemicals Found in Nature 63. Erosion by Wind-Driven Rain 64. Organic Matter: Global Distribution in World Ecosystems 65. Permafrost 66. Salt-Affected Soils: Plant Response Section VIII: PRO: Basic Environmental Processes 67. Agricultural Runoff 68. Desertification 69. Desertification: Prevention and Restoration 70. Erosion 71. Erosion by Water: Erosivity and Erodibility
